Heh heh. Okay, it's taken me a few minutes, but now that I've stopped laughing, I can post this.

We are witnessing the victory of Sony's online marketplace over Nintendo's and Microsoft's. It may take a little while, but porn tends to be a very accurate signal of technology that survives over time. It did it when VHS and Betamax battled it out, it did it when Blu-Ray knocked down HD DVD, and by the looks of things, Sony has learned its lesson about opening up one of the more influential and profitable markets out there.

Well I decided to take one for the team and go check this out. You know for strictly informative reasons. Thankfully they had a free trial because it was total garbage for the most part. You have to watch everything through the PS3s web browser and the selection is pretty sparse. On top of that the videos take forever and a day to load and the streaming quality is mediocre at best. There are free options out there that top this in every possible way. All in all it's not worth it in the slightest. If I want to watch porn on a web browser, which I've been known to do from time to time, I'll do it for free on my computer.

Torrent trackers, trusted seeders, an external hard drive and a broadband connection? All you're missing is your right hand, some tissues and your jolly own self. As for when I feel like violating my own childhood or current Pop culture elements, there's always Rule 34.

While I'm not going to use the service and am surprised that Sony is allowing it, this could be a very good sign for games. Right now, anything rated AO is blacklisted from the console market, which acts as a limiter on what developers can make. While I don't expect many brick and mortar retailers to begin stocking such games even if the console makers start permitting them, online ordering is pervasive enough that we might be able to see games rated at that level. While admittedly most of it will be for sex scenes that good developers don't need to use anyway, the "prolonged scenes of intense violence" the ESRB rating uses will be available to horror writers, which should let developers write something like an extended, graphic torture sequence.